Stephen Smith
166 Collection Items
- APM Special Coverage: The Breakthrough of ’48: When Civil Rights Won the White House
An APM Special Coverage presentation of the documentary, The Breakthrough of ’48: When Civil Rights Won the White House. Based on veteran journalist Samuel Freedman’s celebrated book, Into the Bright Sunshine, this documentary uses first-person interviews and compelling archival audio to resurrect a pivotal moment in American history that remains relevant and revealing today.
- APM Reports: Covid on Campus
On this MPR News Presents program, an APM Reports documentary titled "Covid on Campus." The coronavirus pandemic represents the greatest challenge to American higher education in decades. Some small regional colleges that were already struggling won’t survive. Other schools, large and small, are rethinking how to offer an education while keeping people safe.
- APM Reports: Under a Watchful Eye
MPR News Presents airs “Under a Watchful Eye,” an APM Reports & The Hechinger Report documentary that looks at colleges using big data to track students in an effort to boost graduation rates, but it comes at a cost.
- APM Reports: Students on the Move - Keeping uprooted kids in school
An MPR News Presents broadcast of the APM Reports education documentary “Students on the Move - Keeping uprooted kids in school.” A frank portrayal of the educational challenges facing kids whose housing is unstable by introducing listeners to kids experiencing homelessness, kids in migrant farmworker families, and some of the people trying to help them stay in school.
- APM Reports: Hard to Read - How American Schools Fail Kids with Dyslexia
An MPR News Presents broadcast of the APM Reports education documentary “Hard to Read - How American Schools Fail Kids with Dyslexia.” There are proven ways to help people with dyslexia learn to read, and a federal law that's supposed to ensure schools provide kids with help. But across the country, public schools are denying children proper treatment and often failing to identify them with dyslexia in the first place.
- APM Reports: Shadow Class - College Dreamers in Trump's America, part 2
The APM Reports documentary “Shadow Class: College Dreamers in Trump's America” looks at the rescinding of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), a policy that allows some individuals with unlawful presence in the United States after being brought to the country as children to receive a deferred action from deportation and become eligible for an employment in the U.S.
- APM Reports: Shadow Class - College Dreamers in Trump's America, part 1
The APM Reports documentary “Shadow Class: College Dreamers in Trump's America” looks at the rescinding of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), a policy that allows some individuals with unlawful presence in the United States after being brought to the country as children to receive a deferred action from deportation and become eligible for an employment in the U.S.
- Greater Expectations: The Challenge of the Common Core
Midday presents an American RadioWorks documentary titled “Greater Expectations: The Challenge of the Common Core,” which looks at how the United States is in the midst of a huge education reform. The Common Core State Standards are a new set of expectations for what students should learn each year in school.
- Song Catcher: Frances Densmore of Red Wing / Artist Charles Biederman
During a pledge drive, MPR News Presents broadcasts two American RadioWorks documentaries, “Song Catcher: Frances Densmore of Red Wing” and “Artist Charles Biederman.”
- Bright Ideas: A conversation with Christopher Hampton
MPR News Presents a broadcast of Bright Ideas with British playwright’s Christopher Hampton. MPR’s Stephen Smith and Hampton discuss the artist’s long career and his latest work, Appomattox.
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